Soviet 11th Army

The Soviet 11th Army was an army of the Soviet Red Army that was active from 3 October 1918 to December 1943. The army was formed by the Bolsheviks in the North Caucasus during the Russian Civil War, and it played a prominent role in the sovietization of Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia from 1920 to 1921. In 1939, the army was deployed to the Byelorussian SSR, and it fought in the 1939 invasion of Poland, in the Baltics during Operation Barbarossa, in the Demyansk Pocket, and at the Battle of Kursk. The army was disbanded in 1943, with its personnel being integrated into other Soviet armies.